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Show A Giant Rpar. M. do Snrznc, who bab boon carrying on excavations in Chaldcn with tho permission ot the Turkish government, recently made tin intcrcbting discovery in nn nnclent Absyrlnn royal palace. It was tho colossal head of tin Immense lance, made of copper or bronze, four-twi' four-twi' 1 . ' ui.de Iirht) h:..(f. withii.s holes to attach It to It bundle. bun-dle. At the point of the bpcar-hcad Is engraved a lion with its claws In tha position ot attack. Hclovv It la an Inscription In-scription which, however, gives no clew to tho former ovvuer of tho weapon. Learned nrchecologliU who hnvo examined tho lance-head are of the opinion that It was once carried by lsdubar, the Chaldean Hercules. |